**Five Star Predictions**

As I embark on this exciting project, I'm thrilled to share my five star predictions with you all. The goal is to have fun and indulge in some book love, while also documenting our progress along the way.

First up, I have a book that will not quit shining greatly. I think that's a sign that it's awesome, and I've been surprised no, no, it's okay. Next, I'm going to hold it awkwardly here, so this is sorry, disrupt the peace by petting me, control, and this is from McSweeney's. I haven't read anything from McSweeney's, but this book has had high up on my TBR for several months, and I haven't seen Lee really see it anywhere on BookTube for whatever reason. But this book is about a woman whose brother commits suicide, and then she goes to deal with his effects after that happens, and to settle all of his affairs.

I've read the first few chapters of this book, and I really enjoyed her writing style. I think it's a very important topic, and I again, I haven't seen it anywhere on BookTube for whatever reason, so I want to feature it somewhere sometime. I don't know why, but I also think I'll really enjoy it, so hopefully, I'll finally take it off my TBR and read it.

**Homefire by Caimh Robbins**

Next up is Homefire by Caimh Robbins, which is out from Riverhead Books. Look at that design - oh my goodness, I haven't hauled this yet, so you haven't seen this on my channel. But look at that - it's a beautiful stamp on the cover, and it's gorgeous. The design is actually repeated on the inside, so it looks really cool. This book is actually a retelling of Antigone, which I saw modernized in a cool version when I was in college with my date who didn't work out very well.

Anyway, I still love Antigone, and I think it's amazing. In this novel, an older sister moves across the pond from Britain to the US and finally has a chance to pursue her academic career after taking care of younger siblings for a while. The novel opens with her being interrogated because she's a Muslim as she tries to fly from Britain to the US - I thought it was really interesting.

**Burial Rites by Hannah Kent**

Last but not least, is Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, which I need to read before a certain date so I can follow my favorite author's progress. This book has been on my TBR for months now, and I still haven't read it - what's wrong with me? But this book is about a woman who's been convicted of murder in 19th-century Iceland, where she was sentenced to death for killing her husband.

Everywhere I've looked online, everyone is gushing about this book, but I'm like okay, I'll take your word for it. I hope it's five stars - that's what I want from a book. Mysterious, dark, and full of suspense - I just know I'll love it. I mean, why not? It's Hannah Kent, after all.

**The Future**

I'm excited to document my progress on these books and share my reactions with you all. Who knows how good I'll be at predicting which ones I'll actually enjoy? Maybe I'll surprise myself, or maybe not - we'll see!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi I'm Ken doin Chester and welcome back to my channel so today I am jumping wholeheartedly on the five five star predictions bandwagon there we go hard to say so if for whatever reason you haven't heard of this you've been in a cave on vacation or I I don't even know it is a type of video started by Mercedes over at Marcy's bookish musings where you pick five books you think will be five stars so that if you hit a bad book or whatever you can pick from this pile and in theory it would be awesome so we'll see how well my predictions are I've heard great things about these books so like my first prediction is Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon I have been going through twenty Morrison's books through publication NIR actually so I bought this last year at the Decatur Book Festival somewhere around there and I still haven't read it and my project has been settled that long because I hit a wall when they didn't have the audio book for this anywhere but I think that this one or beloved will be five stars I've heard that people tend to think their favorite is you that one or the other one so I'm really excited to read this one this one's next in line beloved's a couple down the road so we'll see but yeah this book I don't even know what it's about I don't need to know what it's about it's Toni Morrison what other information do I need next up is no surprise to anyone I haven't hauled this book yet because I've been waiting for it to arrive and arrived today thank goodness and this is little fires everywhere by Celestia and this is published by penguin press this is her second novel the first one was everything I never told you and I loved it so I'm really excited about this one this one is about a suburb of Cleveland called Shaker Heights in the community there and a woman named Mia who is like this artist single mother person moves in makes friends and everything seems great but then a couple decides to adopt a Chinese American baby and the entire community is in an uproar and people take sides and stuff happens so I really read about this book Liberty resistant Lea guests on the Podcast it should come out on Wednesday and she said she enjoyed this one more than her first book so yes to this one hopefully it will be fire stars I guess I'll find out this weekend cuz heaven knows I'm dropping everything to read this book surprised no no it's okay next up is a book that will not quit shining greatly I think that I think that's a sign that it's awesome there we go I'm gonna hold it awkwardly here so this is sorry disrupt the peace by petting me cotrol and this is from McSweeney's I haven't read anything from McSweeney's but this is a book I have had high up on my TBR for several months and I haven't seen Lee really seen it anywhere on booktube for whatever reason but this book is about a woman whose brother commits suicide and then she goes to deal with his effects after that happens and to settle all of his affairs I read the first a few a couple of chapters of this book and I really enjoyed her writing style I think it's a very important topic and I again I have really seen it anywhere so I want to feature it somewhere sometime I don't know but I also think I will really enjoy it so hopefully I will finally finally take it off my TBR and read it because that's that's that's how it's then yeah he says what they tell me I don't know I just read books okay next up is homefire by Camilla's Shamsi and this is out from Riverhead look at that design oh my goodness I haven't hauled this yet so you haven't seen this on my channel anyway look at that it is a beautiful stamp on the cover it is gorgeous and that design is actually repeated on the inside so it looks it looks really cool so this is actually a retelling of Antigone now I saw Antigone my freshman year of college I saw this modernized cool version and it was fantastic and the guy I was on the date with to watch the play was like this is so stupid and I was like no I love it and obviously that relationship didn't work out very well so anyway I still love Antigone and I think is amazing of course I'm going to read this book I'm hopefully going to love it I read a couple chapters yesterday and it is amazing in this novel an older sister moving across the pond from Britain to the US and she finally has a chance to pursue her academic career after taking care of Fortran younger siblings for a while and this novel opens with her being interrogated because she's a Muslim as she's trying to fly from Britain to the US so I thought it was really interesting I just cannot wait and he had just look at the cover just get hypnotized slowly last but not least is burial rites by Hannah Kent now I for various reasons need to read the good people by Hannah Kent by a certain date so I really need to get on this cuz I wouldn't to read them in order of publication because I like to follow an author's you know progress as they can take you and whatever not we a lot of us do this but this is a first one and I haven't read it yet I owned it for several months now still haven't read it and this is about a woman who's been convicted to die and early was 1800 Iceland 1838 there we go anyway so she's doing a victory to die they don't have a self woman who had been convicted to dies she sent to this random farm and it's supposed to be very bleak and sad and depressing but amazing all at the same time everyone on booktube is gushing about this book and I was like okay I I will read it some people thought it was okay but you know I I'm excited about it I hope it's five stars I mean I'll be I'll be an optimist on this one that's fine with me at least seems to be guaranteed that I will enjoy it so good bet so those are my five star predictions we'll see how good I am at predicting the books that I will like I don't know how good I'll be but you know I think this is really fun thanks to you so thank you Mercedes for starting this and I will get back with you later once I've read all of these books I have no idea when I'm going to have read all of these books but in theory all of those books need to be read soon for various reasons so I think it's got a convenient better works out this way I admit I did partially pick them because they need to be read soon but also the Dority reason I think will be great right so that's all for me and if you have done this video please put a link to this video your version of your five star predictions down in the comments below because I want to check them out I'm really excited about doing this so I want to see yours too and we'll all see how good we are predicting our own favorite books so I guess I'll talk to you later guys byehi I'm Ken doin Chester and welcome back to my channel so today I am jumping wholeheartedly on the five five star predictions bandwagon there we go hard to say so if for whatever reason you haven't heard of this you've been in a cave on vacation or I I don't even know it is a type of video started by Mercedes over at Marcy's bookish musings where you pick five books you think will be five stars so that if you hit a bad book or whatever you can pick from this pile and in theory it would be awesome so we'll see how well my predictions are I've heard great things about these books so like my first prediction is Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon I have been going through twenty Morrison's books through publication NIR actually so I bought this last year at the Decatur Book Festival somewhere around there and I still haven't read it and my project has been settled that long because I hit a wall when they didn't have the audio book for this anywhere but I think that this one or beloved will be five stars I've heard that people tend to think their favorite is you that one or the other one so I'm really excited to read this one this one's next in line beloved's a couple down the road so we'll see but yeah this book I don't even know what it's about I don't need to know what it's about it's Toni Morrison what other information do I need next up is no surprise to anyone I haven't hauled this book yet because I've been waiting for it to arrive and arrived today thank goodness and this is little fires everywhere by Celestia and this is published by penguin press this is her second novel the first one was everything I never told you and I loved it so I'm really excited about this one this one is about a suburb of Cleveland called Shaker Heights in the community there and a woman named Mia who is like this artist single mother person moves in makes friends and everything seems great but then a couple decides to adopt a Chinese American baby and the entire community is in an uproar and people take sides and stuff happens so I really read about this book Liberty resistant Lea guests on the Podcast it should come out on Wednesday and she said she enjoyed this one more than her first book so yes to this one hopefully it will be fire stars I guess I'll find out this weekend cuz heaven knows I'm dropping everything to read this book surprised no no it's okay next up is a book that will not quit shining greatly I think that I think that's a sign that it's awesome there we go I'm gonna hold it awkwardly here so this is sorry disrupt the peace by petting me cotrol and this is from McSweeney's I haven't read anything from McSweeney's but this is a book I have had high up on my TBR for several months and I haven't seen Lee really seen it anywhere on booktube for whatever reason but this book is about a woman whose brother commits suicide and then she goes to deal with his effects after that happens and to settle all of his affairs I read the first a few a couple of chapters of this book and I really enjoyed her writing style I think it's a very important topic and I again I have really seen it anywhere so I want to feature it somewhere sometime I don't know but I also think I will really enjoy it so hopefully I will finally finally take it off my TBR and read it because that's that's that's how it's then yeah he says what they tell me I don't know I just read books okay next up is homefire by Camilla's Shamsi and this is out from Riverhead look at that design oh my goodness I haven't hauled this yet so you haven't seen this on my channel anyway look at that it is a beautiful stamp on the cover it is gorgeous and that design is actually repeated on the inside so it looks it looks really cool so this is actually a retelling of Antigone now I saw Antigone my freshman year of college I saw this modernized cool version and it was fantastic and the guy I was on the date with to watch the play was like this is so stupid and I was like no I love it and obviously that relationship didn't work out very well so anyway I still love Antigone and I think is amazing of course I'm going to read this book I'm hopefully going to love it I read a couple chapters yesterday and it is amazing in this novel an older sister moving across the pond from Britain to the US and she finally has a chance to pursue her academic career after taking care of Fortran younger siblings for a while and this novel opens with her being interrogated because she's a Muslim as she's trying to fly from Britain to the US so I thought it was really interesting I just cannot wait and he had just look at the cover just get hypnotized slowly last but not least is burial rites by Hannah Kent now I for various reasons need to read the good people by Hannah Kent by a certain date so I really need to get on this cuz I wouldn't to read them in order of publication because I like to follow an author's you know progress as they can take you and whatever not we a lot of us do this but this is a first one and I haven't read it yet I owned it for several months now still haven't read it and this is about a woman who's been convicted to die and early was 1800 Iceland 1838 there we go anyway so she's doing a victory to die they don't have a self woman who had been convicted to dies she sent to this random farm and it's supposed to be very bleak and sad and depressing but amazing all at the same time everyone on booktube is gushing about this book and I was like okay I I will read it some people thought it was okay but you know I I'm excited about it I hope it's five stars I mean I'll be I'll be an optimist on this one that's fine with me at least seems to be guaranteed that I will enjoy it so good bet so those are my five star predictions we'll see how good I am at predicting the books that I will like I don't know how good I'll be but you know I think this is really fun thanks to you so thank you Mercedes for starting this and I will get back with you later once I've read all of these books I have no idea when I'm going to have read all of these books but in theory all of those books need to be read soon for various reasons so I think it's got a convenient better works out this way I admit I did partially pick them because they need to be read soon but also the Dority reason I think will be great right so that's all for me and if you have done this video please put a link to this video your version of your five star predictions down in the comments below because I want to check them out I'm really excited about doing this so I want to see yours too and we'll all see how good we are predicting our own favorite books so I guess I'll talk to you later guys bye\n"